Comments on: Tarmac With Ball Tossing

By: Tim O

Tim O — Fri, 15 May 2009 13:22:11 +0000

I have to say this much for Obama; you can’t fake or stage a 3-pointer.

By: mealworm

mealworm — Fri, 15 May 2009 09:15:19 +0000

That still gets to the problem of political reporting; even if that’s true and was true of Dukakis, there was no way to get the press to report it without a transparently fake set-up. Of course, when Gore tried the same type of thing to highlight his accomplishments, they turned on him because they didn’t want to report that he was as accomplished as he was.

By: david

david — Fri, 15 May 2009 03:36:26 +0000

I don’t know how this affects Didion’s article, which I’ve always loved, but the Duke still throws a baseball with little league kids, at least as of a summer ago.

By: Bobo Berlin

Bobo Berlin — Fri, 15 May 2009 03:09:24 +0000

My current operating theory is that our political press people have no souls, and like all people who lack souls, “know” that all of us engaged in politics also lack souls. This is how they “know” that trying to defend the Constitution against Republicans and Democrats who eroding it are engaging in partisan vengeance: it is the only way it makes any sense to people without souls. It would never occur to them that such defense is pan-partisan / non-partisan, sincere and important. They themselves have no sincere sense of caring about “their” nation or its citizens. It’s all about who’s winning and who’s losing right now, and knowing that no matter what, they themselves are the knowing winners.

By: K.L. Scott

K.L. Scott — Fri, 15 May 2009 02:06:23 +0000

It’s a good thing nothing’s riding on these charades. I’ve always more or less suspected something like this, but figured these “giants” would be a good deal more circumspect. Thanks for setting me straight.

By: Matthew Yglesias » Endgame

Matthew Yglesias » Endgame — Thu, 14 May 2009 22:13:29 +0000

[...] — The eye-deep corruption of political journalism. [...]